Research & Development

Tata Steel Chair Professor

Supporting education and research in metallurgy at universities is one way to secure future resources for industrial research and development in metals. With this in mind, the Tata Steel Group has endowed a professorship in metallurgy at the University of Cambridge. The holder of the Chair, inaugurated on 24th November 2008, will be known as the Tata Steel Professor of Metallurgy and the first person to hold the chair is Dr. Harry Bhadeshia, a world renowned expert on the physical metallurgy of steels.